Drawing political cartoons is always a tricky problem.
They usually offend one or more sides in the political world. But, when a
political cartoon jumps from legitimate criticism and satire and heads into the
territory of bigotry and hatred, the protections for freedom of speech end.
It is o.k. to censor bigotry as long as we know what bigotry is. (It is
not our present-day general political incorrectness. Rather it is the
condemning all people in certain religious, sexual, racial, ethnic and/or age
groupings.)

What were the Danes thinking? It is religious bigotry to
imply in a cartoon that the prophet Mohammed would ever sanction or condone the
use of bombings to kill and intimidate innocent civilians.

Whenever a person or institution takes the position that a
major religion like Islam is inherently evil with inherently evil prophets, they
have crossed into the territory of religious bigotry and we need not worry about
the cries of the bigots for "freedom of the press."

The Muslims are exactly right in their argument that the
democratic West would object strenuously if the Islamic world were cross over
into religious bigotry and imply that the holocaust never occurred or that the
Jews are lying about the atrocities committed under Adolf Hitler. And if
they did cross over, the Islamic world should be chastised vehemently.

Liberal countries, like Denmark, which denounce bigotry should
not engage in religious bigotry in their newspapers. It only increases the
levels of injustice and suspicion in the world, on both sides, the Islamic world
and the West.

So, I for one will not sympathize with the Danes when they
print material that promotes religious bigotry.